# Load\_dataset hangs with local files

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/load-dataset-hangs-with-local-files/28034>\
**Category:** 🤗Datasets\
**Created:** [December 17, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/load-dataset-hangs-with-local-files/28034 "2022-12-17T19:11:40Z")\
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The code fails when multiprocessing is called. I suspect this is because you didn’t use

```python
if __name__ == " __main__":

```

in your script. Therefore the subprocess would re-run your script and call `load_dataset` in the subprocess again.

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